Curtain ring or hanger



(No Model.

J. W. LESLIE.

CURTAIN RING 0R HANGER.

No. 372,628. PatentedNov. 1, 1887.

N ITED STATES Fries.

PATENT J. WILLIAM LESLIE, OF EVERETT, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO ISAAO WATTS, OF WAVERLY, AND JOSHUA C. W'ILLIS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAIN RING OR HANQER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,628, dated November 1, 1887.

Application filed June 28, 1887.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J. WILLIAM LEsLin, of Everett, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improvement in Curtain Rings or Hangers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve IO the construction of the curtain ring or hanger shown and described in application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 235,808, filed by me April 19,1887. In the curtain-ring shown in the said application ayoke or frame was placed in a roller-receiving recess cut in the tubular ring,

the yoke being sprung in said recess; but in practice the said yoke or frame would move in the recess, so that the said roller would not at all times have an even bearing upon the pole.

In accordance with this invention the yoke or frame carrying the friction roller is provided with outwardly'extended ears or projections which bear against the interior of the tubular ring when said yoke or frame is placed in position, the said ears or projections serving to lock the frame firmly in place.

Figure 1 shows in elevation a curtain-ring provided with a friction-roll having its bearings in a yoke or frame constructedin accordance with this invention; Fig. 2, a section on the dotted line a: x of the ring shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a cross-section of the ring,taken on the dotted liney 3 Fig. 2; and Figs. 4 and 5, details of the yoke or frame removed from the ring.

The tubular ring a is cut away upon its inner side, as at a, to form a roller-receiving re cess, the material at the sides of the recess being bent inwardly to form smooth longitudinal edges.

Serial No. 242,733. (No model.)

The yoke or frame a is made of substantially the same length as the roller-receiving recess, and in the sides 2 of said yoke or frame the journals of the friction-roller a have their bearings. The extreme ends of the yoke or frame are overturned as best shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and enter recesses out in the ring communicating with the roller-receiving recess. Each side 2 of the yoke or frame is provided with two outwardly-extended ears, 20, the upper sides of which are made straight and the under sides inclined, so that when the frame is placed in the roller-receiving recess and pressure is applied the cars 20 will spring beneath the material forming the ends of the recess, as shown in dotted lines, 2.

The cars or projections 3 and the cars 20 serve as looking devices to lock or wedge the yoke or frame firmly in place, so that the roller (6 always has an even bearing upon the pole.

Vhile I have herein shown ears 20 and 3 as a means for locking the yoke or framein position, it is obvious that the said yoke or frame may be provided with laterally 0r outwardly extended projections of any desired shape and number.

I claim- In'acurtaiirring, the tubular ring a, having a roller-receiving recess, combined with a yoke or frame having lateral or outwardly extended projections or ears,said yoke or frame carrying the friction-roller a and being placed in the roller-receiving recess and held by the said projections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. \VILLIAM LESLIE.

IVitnesses:

BERNIOE J. NoYEs, B. DEWAR. 

